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Jul 17, 2021 With less than one week to go before the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, it feels appropriate to celebrate Japan’s participation in the games by looking back at some of the country’s most memorable moments over the years, including some surprise team victories and heroic individual performances. It all began for Japan back in Stockholm in 1912. The country has been a part of all but two of the events since — missing out in 1948 (along with Germany) due t...

Jul 7, 2021 In November 2019, unsettling news broke that the bones of 187 human bodies had been excavated between 2013 and 2015 from the construction site of Tokyo’s new Olympic stadium. It turned out the area where the venue was being built was an Edo Period (1603-1868) cemetery. While the discovery wasn’t particularly surprising — old burial sites are frequently unearthed during large-scale infrastructure projects — it was enough to revive an urban legend: the Tokugawa curse....

The center of Tokyo is not a square or a tower or a statue, but a bridge. All distances from Tokyo are measured from this bridge, which is made of stone and bronze and called Nihonbashi, meaning “Japan Bridge.” A highway was built in haste in the 1960s, just before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and bathes the bridge’s old stone and road in shadow and darkness. Now, the space where the bridge straddles the river is ugly, and a professor, in 2006, put the bridge on an “Ugly Japan” list. But ...

Grand Forks/East Grand Forks Chambers Shark Tank event bring fun, ideas and prizes The program got off the ground six years ago, when Wilfahrt was watching Shark Tank on TV with his wife Kristi, who thought of holding a local version of the event. Wilfahrt took the idea to the Chamber, and it has been an annual event ever since. 9:00 am, May 9, 2021 × From left: Matt Winjum, Kay Derry, Rachel Gornowicz and Tommy Kenville, pose with Michael Fridolfs (center), at the Chambe...

May 2, 2021 In 1962, the year Robert Whiting arrived in Japan as a 19-year-old soldier from small-town America, the United States was at the peak of its economic power. Under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, the nation had embarked on a quest to put a man on the moon and its Peace Corps volunteer aid program was dispatching idealistic young Americans abroad to help countries in need. Tokyo Junkie, by Robert Whiting 384 pages STONE BRIDGE PRESS Meanwhile, the Japan in which Whiting fo...

Journalist and author Robert Whiting uses his latest book, Tokyo Junkie, to recall his life as an American living in Japan and the transformations he witnessed in the nation he has long called home. Whiting weaves Japanese history into the stories he tells of his own experiences. His writing recounts the city’s massive transformation from post-war devastation to a gleaming beacon of progress and hope, then later dramatic cultural shifts due to the economic bubble bursting, the 2011 tsunami, ...

“Basically, ‘Tokyo Junkie’ is a love story, starting with the giant construction site that was Tokyo in 1962,” explains Robert Whiting. A Tokyo-based journalist and author of the memoir “Tokyo Junkie,” Whiting originally grew up in a small logging and fishing town in Northern California, where his knowledge of Japan extended as far as badly-dubbed Godzilla films shown at his local movie theater. Coming to Tokyo as a young adult, “Tokyo Junkie” is a coming-of-age novel for both t...

Published: 6:00 AM January 16, 2021    The Bell Lane and Foxhall Road junction has been a problem area for accidents and road safety in Suffolk - Credit: Google Maps Long-running plans to introduce lower speed limits on an accident blackspot route near Ipswich have finally been agreed, and will be introduced before the end of the month. The stretch of Foxhall Road between the A12 roundabout and the beginning of the 30mph section near Bell Lane will be reduced from the national speed limit dow...

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cool it was about three meters deep. they found the depth was only about 60 centimeters. the video shows the endoscope being lowered about six meters into the containment vessel, and reaching the waters surface. floating matter thought to be peeled paint and rust can be seen floating on top. the operator says the substances are not melted nuclear fuel. the technicians could not verify or identify areas of damage in the vessel but they did detect levels of radiation mesh tours 72,900 mi...